Loving Like Jesus

Daniel 11-12; Luke 6 

“But I tell you who hear me; Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you…Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

Luke 6:27, 28, 31

Our love for our enemies is an expression of how our Father in heaven treated us before we knew him. The evidence that we are sons and daughters of the living God is not that we attend religious services or pray, but that we love others, including our enemies, as the Father loves us. The ethics of God’s kingdom are summed up in the one command of Jesus that we do to others as we would have them do to us. This simple step of cognitive empathy, of putting ourselves in another person’s shoes and considering how we would want to be treated by them is probably how they would want to be treated by us and thus changes the power dynamics of relationships into opportunities to love, forgive, and serve.

“Lord Jesus, fill me with your love so that I can love like you.”